How do I set up an AI agent that works on a schedule or in the background?

Three are within reach. In Gemini, click Task, describe the job and when to run it: daily, weekly, or whenever an email matching a Gmail filter arrives. Tasks need Google AI Pro, which is ₹1,950 a month in India. In Claude, any conversation on a paid plan can take a recurring job ("every Monday at 9 AM, summarise my team's Slack"), and it runs in the cloud with your computer off. ChatGPT Work can repeat a task on a schedule or trigger. Dots, the always-on agents OpenAI launched at DevDay on 29 September 2026, keep working between conversations on Pro, from $100 a month. Begin with a job that only reads and reports, like a morning brief, before you let one act.